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The Great Tradition And Its Legacy : The Evolution of Dramatic and Musical Theater in Austria and Central Europe
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cherlin, Michael.
- Series:
- Austrian and Habsburg Studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Musical theater--Austria--History.
- Musical theater--Europe, Central--History.
- Theater--Austria--History.
- Theater--Europe, Central--History.
- Local Subjects:
- Musical theater--Austria--History.
- Musical theater--Europe, Central--History.
- Theater--Austria--History.
- Theater--Europe, Central--History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (288 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Berghahn Books, 2004.
- Summary:
- Both dramatic and musical theater are part of the tradition that has made Austria - especially Vienna - and the old Habsburg lands synonymous with high culture in Central Europe. Many works, often controversial originally but now considered as classics, are still performed regularly in Vienna, Prague, Budapest, or Krakow. This volume not only offers an excellent overview of the theatrical history of the region, it is also an innovative, cross-disciplinary attempt to analyse the inner workings and dynamics of theater through a discussion of the interplay between society, the audience, and pe
- Contents:
- Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Book I: Dramatic Theater; Introduction; Part I: The Enlightenment and the ""New Beginning""; Chapter 1 ""By and By We Shall Have an Enlightened Populace""; Chapter 2 Taming a Transgressive National Hero; Chapter 3 Nestroy and His Naughty Children; Chapter 4 Pantomime, Dance, Sprachskepsis, and Physical Culture in German and Austrian Modernism; Chapter 5 Populism Versus Elitism in Max Reinhardt's Austrian Productions of the 1920s; Part II: Post-Holocaust and Postmodern Theater; Chapter 6 Elfriede Jelinek's Nora Project
- or, What Happens When Nora Meets the CapitalistsChapter 7 George Tabori's Return to the Danube, 1987-1999; Chapter 8 Thomas Bernhard's Heldenplatz; Chapter 9 Pulling the Pants Off History; Book II: Musical Theater; Introduction; Part III: The Emergence of the Classical Style; Chapter 10 Vienna as a Center of Ballet Reform in the Late Eighteenth Century; Chapter 12 Displaying (Out)Rage; Part IV: Some Major Transformations of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries; Chapter 13 Karl Goldmark's Operas During the Directorship of Gustav Mahler
- Chapter 14 A Break in the Scenic Traditions of the Vienna Court OperaChapter 15 Schoenberg's Music for the Theater; References; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- ISBN:
- 9781782381686
- 1782381686
- OCLC:
- 1347247807
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